Whereas members of the Santa Rosa Junior College Republicans
targeted 10 faculty members at SRJC by posting Section 51530 of the California
Education Code which forbids the teaching of communism "with the intent to
indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for
communism" and

Whereas the same aforementioned Republicans taped a copy of this
section of the code to the office doors of the aforementioned 10 faculty
members - along with a red star to designate "communist" and

Whereas the SRJC faculty members felt under attack, stigmatized
and even persecuted for simply promoting the free expression of ideas in the
classroom and in their role as teachers and

Whereas the Academic Senate condemns the stigmatizing of faculty
members who express ideas, whether they are conventional or unconventional,
popular or unpopular and

Whereas the Academic Senate condemns attempts to restrict the
free flow of ideas, as well as attempts to intimidate teachers.

Therefore be it resolved that the Sonoma State
University Academic Senate expresses its support for and solidarity with the 10
targeted SRJC faculty members and wholeheartedly endorses academic freedom.